[VAC] Re: sewing curtains.

[JPPOLLY@xxxxxxx]

Now you all are talking about my other love, sewing machines.  I currently 
have over 30, mostly over 50 years old.   If you have in the family an old 
Singer straight stitching machine, the old black kind, it will probably do 
the job of making drapes for you. These machines are tough and simple to 
maintain and can usually be bought for under $100. 
Making drapes can be simple or complicated, depending on if you want all the 
pleats like the originals.  I cut down some second hand ones for my AS and 
eliminated the pleats, they do the job and look fine to me.  They do need to 
be lined though, both for privacy and to make them last longer. My GT doesn't 
have the bottom tracks so mine are really simple curtains. 

1874 Weed FF Treadle
1893 Singer VS2/27 Treadle
1927 Singer 99 Handcrank
1950 Necchi BF Treadle
1948 Singer 201K Handcrank
1951 Singer Godzilla 128 HC
Davis VF Treadle
Singer 9W Treadle
Singer 66 parlor treadle

Just Plain Polly
1964 Globe Trotter
Colorado
WBCCI 7113